Below are the winners and runners-up for Fark's Headline of the Year contest for 2012. This year, like every year, there are simply too many good headlines, and all of us probably have a favorite or two (or twenty) that were brilliant, but sadly didn't quite get enough votes to win their respective contests. It's a shame. To those submitters: damn good work and feel free to take a bow in this thread for one you feel proud of.

For the winners, this is your thread. Congratulations to you. Below are the results of the Headline of the Year contest based on your votes.

HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Alzheimer's Walk set for Saturday. Search and rescue set for Sunday(submitter: justajonesin)

Runner-up: Czech Republic, facing elimination if they lose, hold on to defeat Greece in Euro Cup. This marks the first time in three years that the Greeks haven't bounced a Czech(submitter: kiwannabee )

GEEK HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: Stephen Hawking reaches 70. Must have been a really steep hill(submitter: MrGronk )

Runner-up: Recent study finds six out of ten of us wake up grumpy every morning. The other four of us let her sleep in(submitter: phlegmmo )

Runner-up: Congratulations to Amy Winehouse. One year sober(submitter: Misch )

POLITICS HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: French, Americans, Germans and Saudis now allied against Iran, but will have to come up with a less-awkward acronym before the bombings begin(submitter: Gulper Eel )

Runner-up: Bill Clinton doesn't have interns anymore, so he nailed his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention instead(submitter: Tell Me How My Blog Tastes )

BUSINESS HEADLINE OF THE YEAR: After BJs, Costco is eager to penetrate deeper into Virginia(submitter: Joelogon )

Runner-up: If Apple continues on its current trajectory, it could wind up at $1 trillion. If it uses Apple Maps, it could wind up at a gas station in Botswana(submitter: NecessaryMeansFor_NecessaryMeansFor )

Unfreakable:I was sort of bummed when I saw that phlegmmo had two early runners up and was worried he'd turn into our own version of 0-4 Super Bowl-losing Buffalo Bills, but he got the win with his context headline of the year.

Third In Line:Unfreakable: I was sort of bummed when I saw that phlegmmo had two early runners up and was worried he'd turn into our own version of 0-4 Super Bowl-losing Buffalo Bills, but he got the win with his context headline of the year.

everyone said this was hilarious. So I click the article.......and only the text and headline show up (graphic still loading)........and I'm like...."this headline isn't funny. I guess I don't get it." .....then a few seconds more go by, and finally the mugshot pops up in the article......HAHAHAHAHAHA

Angry Buddha:Whitney Houston beats Bobby Brown to death. I was bummed to see this win since it's blatantly plagiarized. The "Ike beats Tina to death" headline from 2007 also made a hell of a lot more sense.

And it was even better when the Daily News or some other NY Paper did it in 2007 when Ike Turner died.

That's the only one I will legitimately biatch about even being nominated.

Tonto's Expanding Headband:The Whitney Houston one is just recycled from one with the exact same wording for Tina Turner/Ike Turner several years ago.

EnderX:That Whitney Houston Headline was stolen from the Post when Ike Turner died.

Ike Turner beats Tina to death.

23FPB23:Hey, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the Whitney Houston is A TOTAL RIPOFF of a similar headline from when Ike Turner died.

just wait until next year when, "Oates bites Hall in the face. Watch out boy, he'll chew you up" gets nominated and upvoted.

subby's headline was a rip-off of the original journalist who 'broke' that story and wrote a similar headline. as a matter of fact, that story went green the previous night with the submitted headline, "He can't go for that. No can do ". it had about 6 or 7 link votes, then it went red.

then the next day, after more news sources picked it up, and after it popped up all over Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, it was submitted and greened and everybody lined up to praise subby.

so that subby deserves recognition for timing. that's it. timing. not originality, not creativity, not finding a story and writing a clever headline.